Cardmaking - Houses

Another house card.

I removed some of the elements from my printed house so that I could change those on each house.  I can hand draw them in with my fine Sharpie marker.

I put full frames around the windows, clad the gable end and the bottom of the house with live edge boards. I put straight boards on the rest of the house.

I added pink flowers in the front of the house.  A stone pathway to the front door.  A hedge at the back and lawn around the house.

Added texture to the sky by dropping clean water drops in a wet sky.

It was printed on 110lb paper instead of watercolor paper. Trimmed and mounted to Not Quite Navy A2 card base. White insert.

Another house photo card.

I created a small still life with a small ceramic house, bottle brush trees, and a watercolor background.  I processed it with a art filter which is AI generated. Not fussy about that.

For the time being I am printing the photos on my home printer. Printed 3.5x5 on a glossy 4x6 paper then trimmed as needed.

I mounted the photo onto purple card stock with a small border then onto a sage green A2 card base.

It's easier to add greeting to this type of card but it is hard coded and cannot be changed once printed.  White quarter sheet insert and envelope.

After my visit to the ReUse Center this week I brought home a blender pencil for colored pencils.  That prompted me to pull out the box of colored pencils.   I have a nice collection of Prismacolor pencils so I printed another house onto 110lb card stock and added a few customizations with marker and colored it.

This was a quick sketch with the Sharpie marker so it is a bit slap dash. Love the vibrant colors.

Once I added a couple of colors to the house, the bushes and the grass I used the Lyra Rembrandt Splender pencil to blend the colors.  It worked well. It does add a sheen to the piece.

White quarter sheet insert and envelope.